Alix, 58, Royston, Hertfordshire
OccupationSemi-retired trainer and firm director
Voting file Principally Inexperienced, or Labour if there’s no Inexperienced – and Lib Dem to help associates who're native councillors. By no means Tory!
Amuse bouche As an adolescent, Alix cleaned the home of Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones
Suzy, 48, Royston, Hertfordshire
Occupation Accountant
Voting file Labour “possibly a few times within the Blair years”. Now she’s a member of the Conservative occasion
Amuse bouche Suzy enjoys historic re-enactment: “From time to time I gown up as a Norman peasant to prepare dinner dinner for the Lord at varied castles”
For starters
Alix I’m a vegetarian and we agreed to begin by sharing the Greek meze platter, in order that was good. I then ordered the fusilli ai funghi with rocket salad, and the tiramisu semifreddo.
Suzy I had steak, medium uncommon; then Eton mess. Alix appeared pleasant, open to the world, clever and forceful, as a lady must be. She didn’t appear to love the concept individuals really wish to make a revenue from enterprise – should you tax them extra, or make them pay a dwelling wage, there’ll be no incentive for them to do enterprise.
Alix She stored saying that taxing the rich and massive enterprise at larger charges received’t remedy something, whereas I feel fats cats must be taxed. It was clear that we have been diametrically opposed on just about all the things.
Suzy I stated that the proportion of people who find themselves doing tax avoidance and utilizing offshore accounts is just not important sufficient to make a distinction to the economic system. The vast majority of persons are not rich sufficient to cover their cash within the Virgin Islands.
The large beef
Alix Brexit is an unmitigated catastrophe that has achieved nothing to enhance our economic system. We’re a small island, not an empire any extra – and anyway, we had the veto over EU legal guidelines.
Suzy I wasn’t within the financial execs or cons of Brexit. My causes for supporting it have been political. We weren’t getting the advantages from being in that membership, and David Cameron had tried to barter a greater deal and couldn’t. It has made life barely extra sophisticated in sure respects, however you possibly can’t ignore the results of Covid.
Alix It’s ironic as a result of Suzy was born in Russia and got here to the UK, however is towards jap Europeans coming right here to work as a result of she believes they’re taking jobs away from younger individuals.
Suzy I went to sixth type faculty within the UK, so didn’t come for work and needed to return house, however I bought married and stayed. The nation shouldn’t depend on low cost international labour. You would possibly wish to make use of an individual with higher qualifications and a piece ethic – an engineer of their house nation, who finally ends up stacking cabinets at Tesco – however meaning some younger particular person in Britain will lose out.
Alix I identified that British younger individuals don’t wish to be working full-time for minimal wage, however I felt that type of fell on deaf ears.
Sharing plate
Alix We agreed on bettering transport. We dwell in a bit market city and public transport right here is ineffective, easy as that. We additionally agreed we'd like extra electric-car charging factors and house for biking.
Suzy It's a must to enhance infrastructure as a result of you possibly can’t simply crowd individuals into city centres. They’ve diminished the variety of buses right here and I’ve by no means used one as a result of it takes too lengthy.
For afters
Alix I used to be completely bewildered when she stated she felt Donald Trump was very clever! Pardon? I really did the slack-jawed-in-amazement factor.
Suzy I've US relations who're Trump supporters. He was the one politician who really tried to do one thing for working-class individuals. I feel if we’d stayed on that subject lengthy sufficient we'd have come to some kind of recognition of the truth that Trump was addressing an actual drawback.
Alix I stated, “Do you suppose a world chief ought to possibly be clever the entire time and never simply often?”
Takeaways
Suzy We had a stunning chat! We now have political variations, however we even have a number of settlement.
Alix She stored doing this factor the place, when she didn’t agree with one thing I stated, she rolled her eyes, seemed away and adjusted topics. After some time that basically bought on my nerves, however I didn’t say something. I used to be very properly behaved.
Alix and Suzy ate at Banyers Home, Royston, Hertfordshire.
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